Mihalcheon, Peter and Maria

Peter Mihalcheon came to Canada in 1908 as a boy of 16 from Boian, Bukovina with his parents, three brothers and two sisters. Two brothers went back to the old country and made their home there.
Maria was born in Alberta and grew up here. They were married in 1919 in the Romanian church at Hairy Hill. Fourteen children were born of this marriage. The Mihalcheons farmed at Hairy Hill all their lives. In 1962 they retired to Vegreville. Of the thirteen living children, only two are farming. The rest are all work­ing in the urban centres in Canada.